2006-12-24 06:43:54 · 18 answers · asked by zeepogee 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
They love doing what they do; they fight for freedom, America, and her citizens. They get free housing and food, great benefits, and coast of living. So they pay for everything besides your car,gas, and hobbies. But they give you anywhere from $15,000-60,000 for those a year depending on your time in service and rank.
2006-12-24 06:49:17 · answer #1 · answered by I Hate Liberals 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I don't think anyone that is against the war actually have a problem with the servicemen. We all know that they believe that they are defending freedom. The problem people have with the war in Iraq is not with the servicement, it is with the reasons we were told were why we were there were a lie. Leading a nation into a war based on lies is a dangerous precident.
Quite a few of the service people are there for the benefits joining the arms services can bring into their lives once they have left like college tuition. For some, it is the only way they can go to college.
2006-12-24 14:48:43 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
I hate what they are doing because it's wrong. We had no right to invade, and have hurt the country horribly.
Many service people, who signed up for duty over here in emergencies and in case we were attacked, hate having to be over there in an unjust war. They were majorly ripped off.
Many over there believe in what they are doing because it's hard to not believe in what you do. Many people have to convince themselves that what they are doing is right in order to live with themselves.
Others are deluded.
What of it?
Someone's being in Iraq doesn't guarantee that their views on the war are accurate.
Being in uniform doesn't make a person a saint.
I can hate what they're doing without hating them. But I needn't agree with them, either. (Though, as others have pointed out, many of them agree with me that the war was wrong.)
2006-12-24 20:01:57 · answer #3 · answered by tehabwa 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because those in the service volunteered and are doing what they choose to do. The demographics show that the majority of those who volunteer are from middle to upper middle class families. I think too many still think of the military as it was during the 60's or as the ignorant media portrays it. Its a totally different military now.
2006-12-24 14:51:24 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't see how one guy can know what everybody is thinking unless he does a real survey. Why don't you do one and find out instead of wording your question that way? It sounds offensive, are you offended by something?
I love the idea that people are willing to die for their beliefs, I hate innocents dieing. Am I bad?
2006-12-24 15:49:56 · answer #5 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe because they are there and see the problem first hand instead of only hearing about the war through the liberal press who NEVER says anything good about our MIlitary. However, the liberal press makes the terrorists sound like angels, but I've never heard of angels breaking every bone in a person body, drilling into their joints, and REALLY torturing a person. Well, unless you count the fallen angels like in the books by Dante'.
2006-12-24 14:51:17 · answer #6 · answered by msfyrebyrd 4 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Hate what they are doing? You have missed the message all together.
I hate the way the war has been led. I consider the Bush administrations leadership into the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan a complete and total failure. I dont consider our military a failure, i consider those in charge, those running the government a failure and to blame for the direction this war has taken.
Regardless, it is the American taxpayers money that pays for the government and pays for this war. Our people in the government need to wake up and remember that fact. They work for us, they dont own us. If we dont like the way they are using our military or our government we have every damn right to protest it.
2006-12-24 14:49:26 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
This is because they don't see the things we do. This is my second time here to Iraq. They don't have the pride for our country that we do. Ask the bashers what THEY have done for our country. Most of them won't have a thing to say.
2006-12-24 16:25:51 · answer #8 · answered by spike_49_49 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well, what we see on TV isn't exactly the reality of what goes on in Iraq. I mean, we hear about it when someone blows something up, but we don't hear about US troops building schools and roads, foiling terrorists plots, and helping Iraqis generally feel safer.
2006-12-24 15:00:47 · answer #9 · answered by serious troll 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Members of the military aren't allowed to voice a negative opinion.
2006-12-24 15:28:32 · answer #10 · answered by jonbreaks 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋